Not necessarily true.
I loaded the browser and runtime from 700 to 296 and all my android apps did not work properly. When I tried to load just the runtime back to 296, it also didn't make a difference. SO I had to wipe and reload the entire OS.

My opinion? KEEP 296 as a complete working 10.3 OS and wait for a better replacement.

Jaydee did you do a hard reset ? This was posted in other threads as a fix for the runtime. I've been running 700 android runtime on mine for sometime now. I'm on 296 base.